Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Goddard, 32, sapper in the Royal Engineers, weighed only 57 Ibs. when found in a Formosa prison camp last September. When he arrived at Vancouver's Military Hospital three months later he weighed in at 66. His skeletal body was racked with beriberi, pellagra, dysentery, malaria and pneumonia...
Szigeti and Bartók spent some time together at Davos, Switzerland (the locale of The Magic Mountain) in 1928, while Bartók was treated for consumption and Szigeti recuperated from pneumonia. Szigeti remembers him as a slight, frail man with the burning blue eyes of a zealot, whose hair had turned white at 22. They later played in concerts together all over Europe. Said Szigeti: "He was an anachronism . . . who should have lived in the times of Haydn and Beethoven. He couldn't fit into big business...
Alan J. Tinker '47 of Roxbury died in his sleep Monday morning at his room in Adams House. Cause of death was given as bronchial pneumonia...
...Ernst Berl, 68, chemical-warfare specialist for Austria-Hungary in World War I, for the U.S. in World War II, whose process (1940) for converting carbohydrate-containing plants to coal and oil telescoped into a single hour a job that takes nature hundreds of millions of years; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
Tall, spare Dr. Joseph B. Gilbert, 47, who practices in Georgia's Franklin and Hart counties, got his start in 1937. He was asked to see a 60-year-old victim of pneumonia whose white doctor was ill. Frightened but confident, Dr. Gilbert pulled his patient through. He has since treated whites continually, delivered eight white babies...